With the help of pytn you can use your txt file as a json file in a very simple way

pytn stands for - python text notation

• filemod pip install pytn

1. use pip install pytn
2. Make sure that your pip version is updated pip install --upgrade pip.
3. Import the package: import pytn

-edit_data()-> bug fix

• First load the data of the file using load_txt method you need to load data every time you make changes to it as it is using txt as its main source load_txt(filename)

• extract_keys method helps you extract all the keys from the txt file , and returns them all in the list extract_keys(data).

• extract_values method helps you extract all the values from the specific keys in sequence from the txt file , and returns them in the list. extract_keys(data).

• extract_data method helps you extract all the key value pairs from the txt file to dict extract_data(filename)

• edit_data method helps you edit key's value pair , it takes filename ,key, and a value to change. edit_data(filename,key,value_to_change)

• remove_data method helps you remove keys and values pair remove_value(filename,key)

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/kshitij1235/pytn/tree/main/dist

Install

  pip install pytn

{
settings: active is on
values:244
meta:[23,52,53,work]
unit_test=True
}

Rules : 
1) Dont make any sub tree to write your data do it under one tree/{}.
2)dont use ] or [ inside arrays.
4)strictly use : or = when assigning values.

from pytn import *

###printing basic dictornary 
file="main.txt"
print(extract_data(file)) #printing key value pairs


####extracting keys and values separately
print(extract_keys(file)) #printing the updated key values
print(extract_values(file)) #printing the updated values values

{'settings': 'active is on', 'values': 244, 'meta': [23, 52, 53, 'work'],'unit_test':True}
['settings', 'values', 'meta','unit_test']
['active is on', 244, [23, 52, 53, 'work'],True]

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